On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Wow Charles. Must get hold of this book. A human being with no words > for numbers? Incredible.... > > Deepa. > > Deepa - you can hear a lecture that Daniel Everett gave about the Pirahã Indians from the Long Now foundation - http://is.gd/r7r9. TBH, it was this lecture that finally clued in me on the importance of preserving languages and oral traditions (the whole field of anthropology I would say). -- Balaji